The Biologist's Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature, and Nature

ISBN-13: 9780984216550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 246 str.

Victoria N. Alexander

Opis

Drawing on her experiences as a complexity theorist, novelist, and art theorist, Alexander goes inside paradoxically purposeful self-organizing entities to show how poetic-like relationships help form organization where there was none before. She suggests that it is these chance language-like processes that result in emergent design and selfhood, thereby offering an alternative to postmodern theories that have unfairly snubbed the purposeful artist. 246 pp.